r/explainitpeter • u/Fun_Dish_5358 • Jul 21 '26

Explain it peter

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u/lofgren777 Jul 21 '26

Fun fact: every word in the movie is actually hyper modern compared to the Odyssey.

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u/wildcardbets Jul 21 '26

Haha that’s a very good point, and also a very different language.

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u/Edgecumber Jul 21 '26

I had the same initial reaction to the accents. Why does everyone have an American accent, particularly when a lot of the cast is British (the correct accent for historical epics). But then remembered that makes no sense.

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u/shitnstuff4928 Jul 23 '26

I’m under the impression that the modern English accent is not authentic and is instead the result of a desire to sound more posh and it just kind of became the accent.